Secret Space Programs Disclosure: Shades of Gray

Excellent thread, gave me much to study and a needed boost; will have to procure a copy of the book for my collection.

I do not hesitate to believe that there are, indeed, 3 different space programs running concurrently... what amazes me is that some here do not seem
to grasp that letting info out about anything clandestine is moot, because A,) the average Joe isn't going to believe it unless it is "officially"
made public, or B.) it is so incredible that they will just laugh it off as some conspiracy nut ranting and foaming at the mouth...

I am sure that there are things you yourself could share with us that you are under orders not to... but just the same many here would doubt and dis
any disclosure you offered if it didn't fit into their neat little box...sigh...

Were you looking for it? That's a big difference in day to day activity. If you're more concerned about getting off work to see your family then
best beleive you're missing some details. However, If all you do is look around for suspicious activity and/or maybe rooms that shouldn't be, or
maybe places with a lot higher secutiry then others or even areas where you didn't have access to; then I bet you would have found some questions
that would of needed some anwsering. Seems like a wasted oppurtunity in hindsight im sure...

Regarding the Keyhole satellites referenced in the book Shades of Grey, there is an excellent article on the part Fairchild-Hiller had to play- along
with NASA- at the Wikipedia article Corona (satellite).

wow..awsome thread... 'cept for a couple side trackers....i'll be coming back to this one for a while. for something that is so big and 'open'
(space program) i understand how people can not see the the details. en.wikipedia.org...

Sea Launch is a spacecraft launch service that uses a mobile sea platform for equatorial launches of commercial payloads on specialized Zenit 3SL
rockets. As of April 2009 it had assembled and launched thirty rockets, with two failures and one partial failure.

and this is off wikipedia..i wonder what the 'classified' stuff is. my point with this link is that not all space launches need to be public
anymore..no need for big 'hay everybody, look" launches. and yes i know the sea based launches are of small satilites...i'm just assuming they cant
launch something like a saturn V off a ship....yet..or can they...

For example: when Wernher Von Braun retired from NASA, he did not become an AARP member- he went to work for an aerospace company. Guess which one?
Boeing? Wrong.

He went to work for the smallest, most obscure (and now it can be said, Top Secret) aerospace company on the planet: Fairchild Hiller. The world's
premiere rocketman went to a third-rate helicopter company- a helicopter company that it can now be said built spacecraft- including the
mystery-wrapped PEGASUS- for none other than: the C I A.

And then he died (end of story).

Fairchild-Hiller died when CCD's replaced film return technology. But you can see at the link below, that it became something that still exits:

And that modern PEGASUS is a GIANT CLUE to what the
X15-A2 and Follow-ons were really up to, and why they needed full ablative coatings.
Neil Armstrong could tell you, but he'd have to kill you (he got his Astronaut's Wings before Apollo, in an
Air Force X15).

I'm busy with Fukushima reactors situation right now, but will try to catch up with the thread soon.

i got a copy of the book from the bookdepository - on page 66 it informs the reader that Area 51 really exists, that it was an old WW2 base and that
Kelly Johnson flew the aquatone (U2) aircraft from here and the CIA run the security, this book rules cant wait till i get further in to it,

And what on Earth (or off of it for that matter) does the X-15A2 have to do with the Fukushima reactor meltdown of 2011?

North American Aviation built X15, with and for the Air Force and NASA.

And it built other, more interesting things in a top secret facility hidden in plain sight on a mountain just 30 miles from Los Angeles:
Santa Susana Field Laboratory. Now, NASA and the contractors are paying to clean
up a nuclear meltdown at SSFL from 1964...

And what on Earth (or off of it for that matter) does the X-15A2 have to do with the Fukushima reactor meltdown of 2011?

North American Aviation built X15, with and for the Air Force and NASA.

And it built other, more interesting things in a top secret facility hidden in plain sight on a mountain just 30 miles from Los Angeles:
Santa Susana Field Laboratory. Now, NASA and the contractors are paying to clean
up a nuclear meltdown at SSFL from 1964...

Sorry, I fail to see your point on my age. Are you the all knowing because you are old?

Surely the point in something being, 'Above Top Secret', is that it is above top secret and not put in a book available to the public and randomly
discussed in a forum that can be seen by millions. Because then it isn't above top secret. Im struggling to understand why people can't grasp
this.

The majority of things on this sort of subject is complete and utter BS, so I will go on my young and not so well researched instinct and say BS.

While your post seems to be a bit tongue-in-cheek, it does present an interesting question. How would one go about attaining a skill-set desirable for
the various programs out there?

As far as the Naval Space Command, I suppose blowing your assessment tests out of the
water would be a good start. Possibly followed by high ranks in flight school in order to eventually be picked as a test pilot for experimental
platforms, and then a lot of crossing your fingers and praying probably wouldn't hurt either.

A recurring theme, at least in the conspiracy realm, seems to be that of government geologists getting selected for various EBE related, and
"off-world" assignments; so you could always focus on a degree in geology, get a government job, and again... pray to be selected.

As for the intel programs. I'm not really sure what it would take to pique CIA/NSA interests for recruitment. A geology degree probably wouldn't hurt,
along with a strong focus in highly advanced mathematics. Tongue-in-cheek, or not... it certainly presents an interesting question regarding what
would be the most desirable background for the various programs out there.

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